Clinton's opinion piece on his 1994 ban comes on the heels of three mass shootings across the U.S.
In an op-ed for Time published Thursday, former President Bill Clinton urged Congress to reinstate the assault weapon ban he signed when he was in office.
“Elected officials speak about the need for change,” Clinton wrote. “But the tragedies do keep happening, while the one thing that we know can reduce the number and the death tolls of mass shootings has not been done: reinstituting the ban on assault weapons and the limit on high-capacity magazines that was in effect from 1994 to 2004.
Clinton also emphasized in his op-ed that he doesn’t want recreational gun users, such as hunters, to buy into fear-mongering about how such a ban would affect them.
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